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whoa whoa whoa, isnt the stock configuration technically a "suicide" hood since you're SOL if it opens on the highway? So having said that, a "reverse" hood would be a "safety" hood since the air would keep it from opening all the way - and there's nothing "suicide" about the system.

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This is my old 1987 GMC Sonoma that was totally custom. I used a hood hinge from a 1988 Buick LeSabre, modified it alittle but it was pretty easy. The hardest part was lining the hood back up because I did the suicide conversion after we did the flames.

You said you want to do a full tilt frontend. I know I've seen a couple Explorer's and Ranger's on here with a tilt frontend and just the suicide hood. I would do a google search with the titles "Explorer tilt frontend", "Ranger tilt frontend", Explorer suicide hood", Ranger suicide hood". There's thousand's of truck's out there with these mod's done.

You just need the hinge, I got mine from a junkyard car for $30. On the Sonoma/ S-10 you cut the factory hinges about half way down and use the half that's still bolted to the hood to slde down into the channel and locks the backside of the hood down.

the more i read and look at all kinds of threads on this the more i get confused, so will almost any hinge work. Like if i unbolted the ones off of my own car then re secured them from the front to the back and put them on backwards (passenger to driver and vise versa) then the hinge would open up and yet it will still be as strong???